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CrApTeX: /krap'tekh/ [University of York, England] n.
Term of abuse used to describe TeX and LaTeX when they don't work (when used by TeXhackers), or all the time (by everyone else)....
crash: 1. n. A sudden, usually drastic failure. Most often said of the {system} (q.
v., sense 1), esp....
crash and burn: vi.,n. A spectacular crash, in the mode of the conclusion of the car-chase scene in the movie "Bullitt" and many subsequent imitators (compare {die horribly}).
Sun-3 monito...
CRASH: Continue Running After Stop or Hal
Crash Course In Brain Surgery
CRASH: Normal termination.
Crash! P)anic, S)uicide, K)ill bystanders?
Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.
-- Wernher von Brau...
Crash: What a detached programmer would dearly love to do, for at least eight hours.
-- Computing Definitio...
Crawfish, Cajuns and beer. Heaven!

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